Tiger Woods is taking some well-deserved time off following the Masters drama.
Don’t look now but the majors are upon us really, really fast with this new compressed schedule.
And that schedule sure doesn’t help a lot of PGA Tour events.
There are rumors there’s an event at Hilton Head this week, yes the RBC and then that team bamboozle in New Orleans. For most of the top players, looks like a good chance to take a couple of weeks off and that’s what Woods will be doing.
We’ll see Tiger again the week after New Orleans at the Wells Fargo, where they play on the big boy course — Quail Hollow — and that’s a nice warmup for Woods because guess what? The PGA is two weeks later. Woe to the Byron Nelson in Dallas, it falls the week before the PGA.
Woods will take some time to visit Bethpage and reacquaint himself with the Black course.
Woe to the Colonial — it falls the week after the PGA. Nothing like inserting a major between Dallas and Fort Worth — good way to avoid Texas.
Woods, after the PGA, will re-appear at The Memorial where he can have a chat with Jack (Nicklaus) and discuss that re-emerging run to 18, maybe, perhaps, 19 majors.
Jack will be his usual, cordial self.
The Memorial is on another big-boy course, nice warmup for the U.S. Open at Pebble and guess what — it’s two weeks after Memorial. Tiger’s schedule is shaping up nicely.
Woe to the Canadian Open, falls the week before the third major. Oh well, plenty of Canadians can get in this go-round.
Which brings us to Pebble, a nice, big-boy course. And Tiger knows that one pretty well too.
The only wildcard in this major season is the Open Championship at Royal Portrush. Tiger will have no advantage there and 50,000 well-lubricated Irish fans will be cheering their bellies off for Rory McIlroy.
But by then, and it sounds pretty darn crazy, could Tiger Woods show up in Ireland going for the Grand Slam?
2 Comments
Alyron
The tone and content of your article makes me think you are stuck in high school. Tiger has sevrere emotional problems and it has been a long road to get here because they had to be addressed. DJ has cocaine problem which will take equal amount of time. You forget these are humans. Tiger has looked tentative and undserving of a major until the last year He finally deeveloped patience and likely more serenity.. He made some breakethorugh that has allowed him to win mentally. Also back fusions and knee oeations have left him wondering if he could play at all. No one is scared of him. He cruised into the 1 shot win with a bogey. The super hero you want to see is in his 40’s,and far more mature. What is a testimony to his character and likley many of his problems is his unrelenting quest for excellence and championship. He made it. Most of it is mental. I just don’t think there is a man who is at that level of mental committment.. Nicklaus was. Player and Palmer but Tiger was born and bred to win and break all time records. That mades him who whe is in all the good and bad ways. Surviving parents who co-opt your life and dreams is difficult. The fear of disappointing them is enormous. He found compulsive sx as a way to cope with overwhelming anxiety and then it became a habit he could not give up. Then after exposure of the problem, he had shame and worthlessness to deal with. He did not feel deserving and he was out of reliable emotional equilibrium.
I think what you saw was redemtion but you filtered through some child-like macho lens. He has paid a heavy price for the mental conditioning that made him crazed with anxiety and an amazing reliiency. But, tht is what crried on from his childhood. There was no quitting. Buta journey through hell. Don’t make him a 28 year old henom. He is a mature man who has climbed up out of a deep chasm to see himself reborn..
Tom Edrington
don’t understand your comment in the least, we were just predicting Tiger’s schedule leading into the next two majors……we said nothing of D.J. in this article: “Tiger Woods: What Does His Schedule Look Like Now?” As for high school, wish I was that guy again, he was a helluva player, had a lot of length off the tee……..